News

BLUE HUB, MILTON KEYNES

Blue Light Hub for Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes Fire and Rescue Services is taking shape with the central hub RC frame complete and the steel portal frame to the fire appliance wing erected.

Ambulance appliance wing and single storey steel frame on the top of the central hub frame is to be erected next followed by the cladding which will finally show off the sleek curves that this building has.

OCTOBER 2018

PTA SUCCESS AT OUR FIRST MIPIM

Six months on from PTA’s first attendance at the Anval festival in Cannes France, we have secured new business from three new major Clients. Following positive meetings at Cannes with a major industrial developer PTA have now entered a framework agreement with them together with new business from a major reinforced concrete leading contractor and also London’s third largest residential high rise developer all sparked from MIPIM.

PTA’s Business Development Director Ian Abley is astonished at the success of our first visit to the event. MIPIM was founded in 1990 and attracts over 50,000 delegates, clients and professionals at the iconic location. Our MD Simon Barratt says “it’s down to Ian’s in depth knowledge and being focussed and organised during the event.”
The adjacent photo is taken at the “Shed Masters” private invitation event overlooking the Town. PTA will be there again next March.

SEPTEMBER 2018

TEMPORARY WORKS NEWS

PTA would like to welcome Pawel Piwko to the dedicated and expanding Temporary Works team. This will allow PTA to continue along their well-trodden path of commitment and efficiency with their ever expanding portfolio of clients.

PTA are pleased to announce a new partnership with Crest Nicholson as we have been appointed to the Crest Nicholson Temporary Works Forum.

AUGUST 2018

WEMBLEY PARADE

PTA’s project Wembley Parade for London developer Anthology is gathering pace, now in week 28 of an overall 99 week construction program. The RC frame in the meander building is tiered from 7th – 2nd floors, whilst in the 13 storey tower the RC frame is at level 7. Most of the below ground drainage and utilities have been installed, with fit out work commencing on the lower levels on the buildings. Once completed in December 2019 the development will provide 195 high quality homes.

JULY 2018

GALLIONS QUARTER, PHASE 1

Following on from our August 2017 news, it is now ten months on from piling and the 8 no. RC frames are nearing completion with brick cladding now underway.

JUNE 2018

ROYAL MINT GARDENS PHASE 1, IJM DEVELOPMENT

The development situated north-east of the Tower of London has two DLR tracks running to and from Bank Station which run through the centre of the site in a cutting descending into a tunnel.
Transfer steelwork is required to span over the tracks to support 3 no. Blocks up to 13 storeys high. The transfer steelwork, stair and lift cores are now successfully installed and it will not be long before the buildings take shape above.

MAY 2018

GORESBROOK PARK, DAGENHAM

PTA’s project Goresbrook Park at Dagenham has now been completed and handed over to the client. The project involved the extending and improving of Eddie Stobart’s London Distribution HQ. The two previous refrigerated storage units were demolished allowing construction of a new external service yard providing 150 HGV parking bays, VMU, refuelling island and lorry wash. The new warehouse is 14m to haunch providing 180,000 sqft for high bay racking, together with 14 docks.

APRIL 2018

46 PONTON ROAD, NINE ELMS

Slip-form construction is gathering pace on four of the six cores at Bellway’s 46 Ponton Road project in Nine Elms!

MARCH 2018

HORNSEY REDEVELOPMENT (SMITHFIELD SQUARE)

Construction of St James’ new Smithfield Square development in Hornsey is now virtually complete. Along the way, challenges included culvert diversions, basement construction tight to the public highway and residential properties plus a 14m transfer structure directly over a new Sainsbury’s supermarket, complete with an integrated services distribution zone!

FEBRUARY 2018

BEAUFORT PARK – PHASE 10

With construction work now complete for Phase 10 of St George’s Beaufort Park project in Hendon, design work is now underway for the adjacent Phase 15. This latest phase features blocks of up to 10 storeys, which will be connected back to Phase 10 via a ground & first floor car park, a second floor podium/courtyard garden and three residential blocks tying into the existing structure.
Construction is due to commence in September 2018.

JANUARY 2018

TWO FURTHER MEMBERS OF THE INSTITUTION OF STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS

On Friday 1st December 2017, two further engineers became Members of the Institution of Structural Engineers (M.I.Struct.E).

The photo to the left shows Adrian Milne (left) and James Pratt (right) receiving their certificates from the President of the Institution of Structural Engineers, Ian Firth (centre).

DECEMBER 2017

100 MINORIES HOTEL

The 100 Minories project for Grange Hotels in the City of London is nearing completion. The 9 storey hotel with 2 levels of basement has overcome multiple constraints and complications including cantilevering by up to 8m over the LUL Circle and District line and a transfer slab at 2nd floor spanning 13m over a roadway.

NOVEMBER 2017

PONTON ROAD, NINE ELMS

Piling works are underway on Bellway Homes’ Ponton Road site in Nine Elms. The works consist of 400 and 450 diameter CFA piles to support 3 no. 13-storey blocks, with a 1st floor level podium deck, with approvals required for piling adjacent to the nearby Network Rail line.

In the background is Bellway’s development, The Residence, which is nearing completion.

OCTOBER 2017

CARDINGTON POINT, BEDFORD

Chancerygate’s 36000 sq ft warehouse and office development next to the M1 is nearing completion.

The internal RC floor slab has just been completed, with the external service yard slabs currently being constructed.

SEPTEMBER 2017

GALLIONS QUARTER PHASE 1

Piling is nearing completion on Telford Home’s latest project, located next to Gallions Reach DLR station.

The RC superstructure consists of 8 no. residential blocks, all connected at 1st floor by a communal podium level.

The structure provides over 250 no. apartments and is due to be completed towards the end of 2018.

AUGUST 2017

CAMPSBOURNE WELL, HORNSEY

Refurbishment works are progressing at St James’ Campsbourne Well project, located adjacent to their Smithfield Square development in Hornsey.

The existing buildings consist of a single-storey listed ‘Well building’, built in 1887, which serves as an extraction hub to 2 headings and 13 no. deep boreholes, together with an adjoining former boiler house and coal store. Both structures are load bearing masonry construction and both required extensive repair to the roofs and brickwork façade.

A steel frame has been constructed within the original masonry walls, to support new timber floors and timber roof. Extensive repairs have been undertaken to repair the existing cracking within the masonry walls.

JULY 2017

LEGACY WHARF PHASE 1, COOKS ROAD

Construction of the new sheet piled flood defence wall to the Bow Back River nears completion, whilst behind, the RC frame of the 8-storey south west block reaches 3rd floor level.

JUNE 2017

REDCLYFFE ROAD

A Telford Homes project, formerly the Upton Park Bus Depot, a stones throw away from the former West Ham Stadium, is now starting to rise above the surrounding buildings.

Following careful demolition work to protect an existing 60m by 7m high wall that will form the wall to new buildings, along with difficult ground conditions, the superstructures are now progressing fast. The Southern Block will be a 13 storey tower looking over predominantly 4-5 storey buildings.

MAY 2017

ACTON SQUARE

The piles to the west of the site were set back from the existing boundary wall and cantilever pilecaps were required to support the structure on the boundary line. This helped maximise the useable space for this tight and enclosed site.

APRIL 2017

NEWBURY RACECOURSE

Our Newbury Racecourse Central Apartments development for Midgard has now completed the first of five pairs of residential blocks.

The remaining blocks are at varying stages of construction and the slipformed core for the tallest 9 storey building is now finished.

MARCH 2017 – completion date for the project is November 2018.

CRENDON INDUSTRIAL PARK

Plot 3 on the Crendon Industrial Park consists of a 2,600 square-metre warehouse and office space. The ground bearing floor slab and mass concrete foundations are supported by Vibro stone columns due to the subgrade encountered.

Our civils team had to contend with a shallow drainage outfall for their foul and surface water design.

FEBRUARY 2017 – completion due MAY 2017

THE RESIDENCE, NINE ELMS

A Bellway Homes project – Installation of the Decomo precast cladding units to the West Parcel is nearing completion.

Installation of the precast cladding units to the East Parcel, by Thorp Precast, is now progressing rapidly!

JANUARY 2017

KEW BRIDGE ROAD PHASE 2

The 2nd phase of the redevelopment of the former Thames Water reservoir consists of 3 residential blocks, 9, 6 and 5 storeys, linked by a ground floor car park.

There were many challenging aspects to the project including shallow existing services and a 3m diameter Thames Water Ring main running through the site at depth which required a ground movement analysis to satisfy Thames Water.

DECEMBER 2016

MANHATTAN PLAZA (POPLAR)

Manhattan Plaza (Poplar) is another one of our projects for Telford Homes nearing completion.

Groundworks started back in August 2015 and the south tower is currently reaching level 17. Certain elements were designed, manufactured and installed as precast concrete members. The curved brickwork façade supported at every level was also installed as a composite precast panel.

The structural frame of this building is due to be completed before the new year. Find out more about this by visiting our projects page.

NOVEMBER 2016

STRATOSPHERE (BROADWAY CHAMBERS)

Stratford’s landscape has PTA’s signature with 2 high rise projects for Telford Homes.

First was Stratford Plaza (left on the photo) with 29 storeys completed in 2014.

Now Stratosphere is progressing towards completion with Building B1 (middle in the photo) currently reaching level 31, while in Building B2 (far right on the photo) final works are carried out after the frame has been finished.

OCTOBER 2016

WALTON-ON-THAMES

This site in Walton-on-Thames has been redeveloped to contain an industrial warehouse for CPS and a 4-storey residential block of flats for Paragon. Construction is nearing completion for the CPS warehouse with the ground bearing slab to be poured in mid-September. The congested site has made for challenging logistics particularly with the large attenuation tank required and associated drainage.

SEPTEMBER 2016

STRATOSPHERE (BROADWAY CHAMBERS)

PTA’s project Stratosphere for Telford Homes is now near completion.

Building B1 is up to level 28 (left on the photo) and Building B2 frame is completed (right on the photo), with fitting out progressing on both buildings.